Not the same, but I once worked in a place that had reasonably accurate production data generated manually on paper, and required this data copied into Excel workbooks which generated reports that were used at weekly executive planning meetings. The various workbooks were to be created by copy-pasting the newest existing workbook of each type, entering the data, and copy-pasting some other data into the workbooks.

None of these had any access controls, not even for which cells were editable. When I queried about the obviously misaligned pastes and no-content graphs rendering the reports useless, a couple people responded like "Yeah, we know the reports are crap. They want them anyway.".

This was at a company that "was continuously growing at ~3% since the founding" (some decades) and "had never laid off any worker, not part-time or temps".

But somebody had given up. Maybe the guy who came before me, who quit with little notice. A week? I don't remember.

I was given three months for creating and documenting a physical filing system (previous guy left no documentation), and physically filing the backlog. I made it take two weeks, including going back through old Excel workbooks and physical files to repair, correct, and apply access control on the workbooks.

For my next two weeks, I spent a tiny bit of each day keeping things updated, and the majority of it helping out in another department.

Then they suddenly laid off all temps, no appeals from supervisors accepted.

Fast-forward a few years, and I heard from an active employee that they very nearly foundered, before returning to profit, thanks to one of their largest customers taking some of their debt (calculating that their reliability and precision was worth more than the cost of trying to get any other supplier tooled, schooled, and proper rigorous).

I like to think I worked myself out of a job their, by making the estimates not pointless.